DD Girnar

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DD Girnar
CountryIndia
Broadcast areaIndia
NetworkDD (Doordarshan)
Headquarters Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Programming
Language Gujarati
Picture format 1080i HDTV
(downscaled to 576i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner Prasar Bharati (Govt. of India)
History
Launched2003 (as Doordarshan Kendra Ahmedabad)
Former namesDoordarshan Kendra Ahmedabad
Links
Website http://www.ddgirnar.com

DD Girnar (formerly DD-10 Gujarati) is an Indian Gujarati-language television channel, owned and operated by Doordarshan, a part of the public broadcaster, Prasar Bharati. It is broadcast out of studios at Doordarshan Kendra in Ahmedabad in Gujarat.

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History

Doordarshan Kendra, Ahmedabad was set up on 15 March 1976, as a part of the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment SITE Project of ISRO and the 1 KW transmitter was based in PIJ, Kheda District. The studio used to function from the ISRO, Ahmedabad premises, while the administrative office was located in the Polytechnic compound in Ahmedabad.

Few years later, a plot of land was identified and a low power LPT was set up in Ahmedabad in Thaltej Tekra on 19 November 1983. The studio was commissioned on 2 October 1987 while the regional language uplinking was started on 30 December 1992. DD Girnar started its 24-hour transmission on 1 October 1993.

List of programmes currently broadcast

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See also

References

  1. ↑ Archived 15 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine Telecast schedule
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